Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Berlin there were prompt reports that General Tsolakoglou's new Government would be "welcomed." But prominent Greek Orthodox clergymen refused to swear in Tsolakoglou, and he finally took his oath before a lowly priest...
...German cultural agents from executive posts in American churches. Thereupon Japanese Christians did the logical thing: they took full control of their churches with un-oriental speed before their Government got still tougher. In so doing they merged 42 denominations into one, leaving out only the Roman Catholics, Russian Orthodox, Episcopalians (who refused to recognize the validity of the ministerial orders of the other denominations) and the Seventh-Day Adventists (who held out for a Saturday Sabbath...
Just what deity Rudolf Hess, whose job it is to protect his Führer, referred to was not specified. It could scarcely have been the God of the Orthodox Eastern Church, which was next day to celebrate its Easter, symbolic of rebirth, expressing faith in life, not an occasion of death.* It was probably not one of the deities once thought to be resident on Mt. Olympus, on whose summit German troops had planted the swastika just a few hours earlier-for the Gods of Olympus were fundamental to the ancient civilization which had invented democracy, the very thing...
...Greek and Yugoslav Orthodox Easter fell one week later than Roman Catholic and Protestant Easter this year...
...enemy was concentrating supplies in the Monastir sector, announced that their troops were "impatiently awaiting the first opportunity of getting at the Germans." Grimly the Yugoslavs pointed out: "It is one thing to conquer the Komitajis' territory; it is another thing to conquer the Komitaji." This week was Orthodox Holy Week, and devout men like General Simovitch (who was not too devout, however, to divorce his first wife and marry one of the handsomest women in Yugoslavia) threw a religious fervor into their fighting...